Our 375g reef tank build & fish room - Page 25

FUA · 08/08/2009, 10:23 AM

tank looks really great

edandsandy · 08/08/2009, 06:30 PM

FUA, thank you

Brad Rogers · 08/08/2009, 06:44 PM

I have been following for awhile, but never posted. I love the tank, really nice looking!!!

Lightsluvr · 08/08/2009, 07:48 PM

Bee-Yu-Tea-Full!

LL

NexDog · 08/08/2009, 09:35 PM

When this grows out it is going to be awesome.

Love the Blue Jaw. Hard to get here in Japan so I got a Niger Trigger recently. Hope it doesn't get too aggressive later on.

maroun.c · 08/08/2009, 10:21 PM

Looking really good.

edandsandy · 08/11/2009, 05:54 AM

Thank you all for your kind words.

I am sadden to announce that the male trigger went back to the LFS

We could not get him to eat anything!, well, let's just say he ate want he was interested in, in the tank.
We caught him chopping on the torch coral, so I moved it to the front of the tank, where I could keep a better eye on him and the coral. It was a good and bad move, good for the torch, bad for my acans.
He spotted the acans and started drooling!, I grabbed a net as fast as I could and got him out of the tank on the first try!
I could not believe how easy it was for me to catch him, I guess he went into some kind of day dreaming mode on the acans, and did not hear the net entering the water. Out he went into the sump, and we set up a 10g holding tank until we were able to figure out what to do with him.
My torch coral will be fine. Not too much damage.
The female has been a role model fin! I hope she stays that way. If not, we will have to catch her and do the same.
She is eating the fish food, not the corals.
She looks like she is very sad now, swimming all over the tank looking for her friend. With the male out of the tank, the attention from her tank mates are on her, and they are not giving her a warm welcome.
I hoped for a good result with the triggers, Ed really enjoys them. I think he was sadder to see the fish go back.

I have to admit that Ed has been GREAT with the cross over from a predator FOWLR tank to a peaceful reef tank, he just doesn't like the "little fish" so to speak.

Ed Reef · 08/11/2009, 06:01 AM

Sorry to hear your male trigger was misbehaving...!! Let's hope the female is better behave!!

Great thing you caught him in time too or god knows what sort of damage he would have done!!

If you've not send him back to the LFS, I would've suggest feeding him in the sump with yummy meaty food and once he knows how tasty those food are, he won't be looking for 'alternative' food in the reef lol

edandsandy · 08/11/2009, 06:46 AM

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Originally posted by Ed Reef
Sorry to hear your male trigger was misbehaving...!! Let's hope the female is better behave!!

Great thing you caught him in time too or god knows what sort of damage he would have done!!

If you've not send him back to the LFS, I would've suggest feeding him in the sump with yummy meaty food and once he knows how tasty those food are, he won't be looking for 'alternative' food in the reef lol

Actually, we did try and feed him krill, mysis shrimp and silver sides, while he was in the main tank & the 10g tank. I don't know why he didn't eat. The LFS owners & employees ensured me before I brought them home, that is what they were eating at the store.

Who knows, what went wrong.......

I am very glad I was able to remove him safely from the main tank without stressing him out or the worst nightmare ever, having to rearrange the main tank to remove him.

I think the female will be fine, she is eating the "fish" food so far.

papania · 08/11/2009, 11:10 AM

Wow! I just spent the last 3 hours following this post from start to finish.....I am fairly new to this hobby and what you have done is a dream of mine.

apsolutely incredible tank sandy!! I can say enough

Your pictures were greatly enjoyed

thanks!

maroun.c · 08/11/2009, 03:48 PM

Sorry to hear about your issues with the trigger. Guess you're very licky you could take him out without having to breakdown your tank at least.

billgraf · 08/11/2009, 06:18 PM

Bump. I am trying to get to 50 posts so I can break my tank down and sell it here, I enjoyed reading you thread, beautiful tank

jgsensor · 08/11/2009, 06:29 PM

Sorry to hear about the trigger, they are beautiful fish. I've had good luck with a niger in my 375 now for about 2 years. He's a model citizen, hasn't bothered his tank mates or the corals. Although I am not brave enough to try shrimp or clams in the tank.

Lightsluvr · 08/12/2009, 05:10 AM

Sorry about the male trigger, but it sounds like you nursed him back to health before he repaid you by munching on your coral... Ungrateful pig!

Take a look at the Magnificent Foxface Rabbitfish sometime... they are interesting, beautiful and I have found mine to be completely reef safe...

Enjoy!

LL

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by papania
Wow! I just spent the last 3 hours following this post from start to finish.....I am fairly new to this hobby and what you have done is a dream of mine.

apsolutely incredible tank sandy!! I can say enough

Your pictures were greatly enjoyed

thanks!

Thank you so much for your kinds words. We are very honored that you just spent 3 hours reading our thread

Being new to this hobby you probably have a million questions, I know I sure did. When I found RC, I had no idea that so many people had the answers for all the questions I had.

Hope you will enjoy this hobby as much as we do!

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 06:20 AM

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Originally posted by maroun.c
Sorry to hear about your issues with the trigger. Guess you're very licky you could take him out without having to breakdown your tank at least.

Thank you maroun.c,
breaking down the tank to catch a fish would not have been easy or fun!

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by
Sorry to hear about the trigger, they are beautiful fish. I've had good luck with a niger in my 375 now for about 2 years. He's a model citizen, hasn't bothered his tank mates or the corals. Although I am not brave enough to try shrimp or clams in the tank.

That is great news about your niger trigger!
The female is still in the tank, and eating "fish food" I can only hope she continues to be a good fish, catching her is not going to be as easy as catching the male. She is a lot smaller than the male and twice as fast.

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lightsluvr
Sorry about the male trigger, but it sounds like you nursed him back to health before he repaid you by munching on your coral... Ungrateful pig!

Take a look at the Magnificent Foxface Rabbitfish sometime... they are interesting, beautiful and I have found mine to be completely reef safe...

Enjoy!

LL

That male did not know how good life for him could have been living with me! he is an ungrateful pig!

Am I still talking about a fish here or my ex-husband

I hate to admit this, but when I asked Ed to purchase the silver sides for new addition to the tank, he spotted a BEAUTIFUL magnificent foxface, and now he resides in out tank as well.

I know they like zoas, which doesn't me much because I really do not want the zoas crowing out my SPS's.
I have tried to isolate the zoas (Ed's misfit island) from the rest of main rock work, Eds misfit island was next to a beautiful rock and a few zoas started growing on that rock and now there is more zoas on that beautiful rock than I want to count.

Maybe the foxface will take care of those for me, because I have no idea how to remove them safely from that rock. If not Ed will have two misfit islands in the tank

Ozz465 · 08/12/2009, 10:01 AM

Great thread , just read the whole thing .

EnglishRebel · 08/12/2009, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by billgraf
Bump. I am trying to get to 50 posts so I can break my tank down and sell it here, I enjoyed reading you thread, beautiful tank

billgraf
Just a word of advice. If you keep up the "bumps" to increase your post count you're going to incur the wrath of the mods.

Sandy
Sorry the Trigger had to go. Pity he didn't take the advice of all of us males 'listen to your mate' i.e. don't eat the corals or you're history.

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by Ozz465
Great thread , just read the whole thing .

Thanks for stopping by Ozz465 and glad you enjoyed our thread.

edandsandy · 08/12/2009, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by EnglishRebel

Sandy
Sorry the Trigger had to go. Pity he didn't take the advice of all of us males 'listen to your mate' i.e. don't eat the corals or you're history.

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BTW, did you jinx me ?????

EnglishRebel · 08/20/2009, 08:52 AM

Sandy
How's the female Trigger doing? Is she still moping about the tank looking for her buddy?

BTW How do you subscribe to a thread? For some reason I lost all my subscriptions (including yours) and for the life of me I can't find the "Subscribe to this Thread" button (but I am getting old and senile

)

melev · 08/20/2009, 12:50 PM

Alan, if you reply to a thread (and you have email notifications on), you'll be subscribed. Or you can click on the "Subscribe" button at the base of the page, under the quick edit box. It's a blue text link.

edandsandy · 08/20/2009, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by EnglishRebel
Sandy
How's the female Trigger doing? Is she still moping about the tank looking for her buddy?

BTW How do you subscribe to a thread? For some reason I lost all my subscriptions (including yours) and for the life of me I can't find the "Subscribe to this Thread" button (but I am getting old and senile )

Alan,
She is still moping around the tank, but her tank mates have finally accepted her.
I noticed that her top fin is turning yellow, like a male....
I hope she doesn't change.

I think Marc answered your question about the subscription,
Thanks Marc

08/08/2009, 06:30 PM	#602
edandsandy Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NE Florida Posts: 2,380 Blog Entries: 2	FUA, thank you __________________ Sandy ><((((º>`•.¸¸.•><((((º>´¯`•><((((º> .¸¸.><((((º>•.¸. , . .•><((((º>.¸¸. Current Tank Info: 375 Reef, 4) Radion LED lights X30 pro, Apex Fusion, Octo Regal 300 E Skimmer, GEO 618 Calcium Reactor 2) Reeflo Snapper pumps, 2)50g refugium, 2) MP 40's

08/08/2009, 06:44 PM	#603
Brad Rogers Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Del City, OK Posts: 220	I have been following for awhile, but never posted. I love the tank, really nice looking!!! __________________ Brad Rogers Boomer! Sooner! Current Tank Info: 75 Gal, Reef

08/08/2009, 07:48 PM	#604
Lightsluvr Tangaroa to 500 gallons Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 5,855	Bee-Yu-Tea-Full! LL __________________ Click on my username and select "Lightsluvr's Home Page" for a recap of our build thread - AGE Hybrid Tank in a 500G system with dedicated fish room. (Takes a few minutes for photos to load) Leave a note if you stop by... Current Tank Info: 350G AGE Hybrid reef tank. 500G+ total water volume. Three sumps for filtration. Barracuda Gold return and Hammerhead Gold closed loop pumps. DIY T5 light system on rails. MP40W x3 to supplement closed loop. 130G Water management system.

08/08/2009, 09:35 PM	#605
NexDog Snail Killer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kyushu, Japan Posts: 4,804	When this grows out it is going to be awesome. Love the Blue Jaw. Hard to get here in Japan so I got a Niger Trigger recently. Hope it doesn't get too aggressive later on. __________________ Laurence Flynn 340g In-Wall Envision Tank and 150g Sump. Current Tank Info: Deltec 902, PFO hood with 3x400w Radium 20k and 4x96w PC's. Hammerhead closed loop - and 2 x Tunze 6105 (and Vortech still sucks).

08/08/2009, 10:21 PM	#606
maroun.c Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Lebanon Posts: 6,111	Looking really good. __________________ 390 G mixed reef build Current Tank Info: 390G mixed reef

08/08/2009, 10:23 AM	#601
FUA Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 863	tank looks really great

08/11/2009, 05:54 AM	#607
edandsandy Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NE Florida Posts: 2,380 Blog Entries: 2	Thank you all for your kind words. I am sadden to announce that the male trigger went back to the LFS We could not get him to eat anything!, well, let's just say he ate want he was interested in, in the tank. We caught him chopping on the torch coral, so I moved it to the front of the tank, where I could keep a better eye on him and the coral. It was a good and bad move, good for the torch, bad for my acans. He spotted the acans and started drooling!, I grabbed a net as fast as I could and got him out of the tank on the first try! I could not believe how easy it was for me to catch him, I guess he went into some kind of day dreaming mode on the acans, and did not hear the net entering the water. Out he went into the sump, and we set up a 10g holding tank until we were able to figure out what to do with him. My torch coral will be fine. Not too much damage. The female has been a role model fin! I hope she stays that way. If not, we will have to catch her and do the same. She is eating the fish food, not the corals. She looks like she is very sad now, swimming all over the tank looking for her friend. With the male out of the tank, the attention from her tank mates are on her, and they are not giving her a warm welcome. I hoped for a good result with the triggers, Ed really enjoys them. I think he was sadder to see the fish go back. I have to admit that Ed has been GREAT with the cross over from a predator FOWLR tank to a peaceful reef tank, he just doesn't like the "little fish" so to speak. __________________ Sandy ><((((º>`•.¸¸.•><((((º>´¯`•><((((º> .¸¸.><((((º>•.¸. , . .•><((((º>.¸¸. Current Tank Info: 375 Reef, 4) Radion LED lights X30 pro, Apex Fusion, Octo Regal 300 E Skimmer, GEO 618 Calcium Reactor 2) Reeflo Snapper pumps, 2)50g refugium, 2) MP 40's

08/11/2009, 06:01 AM	#608
Ed Reef Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Currently Based in China Posts: 4,060	Sorry to hear your male trigger was misbehaving...!! Let's hope the female is better behave!! Great thing you caught him in time too or god knows what sort of damage he would have done!! If you've not send him back to the LFS, I would've suggest feeding him in the sump with yummy meaty food and once he knows how tasty those food are, he won't be looking for 'alternative' food in the reef lol __________________ Ed ~ Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. ~ Current Tank Info: Ed Reef’s Shallow Crest Inspired ART

08/11/2009, 11:10 AM	#610
papania Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Akron, Ohio Posts: 162	Wow! I just spent the last 3 hours following this post from start to finish.....I am fairly new to this hobby and what you have done is a dream of mine. apsolutely incredible tank sandy!! I can say enough Your pictures were greatly enjoyed thanks!

08/11/2009, 03:48 PM	#611
maroun.c Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Lebanon Posts: 6,111	Sorry to hear about your issues with the trigger. Guess you're very licky you could take him out without having to breakdown your tank at least. __________________ 390 G mixed reef build Current Tank Info: 390G mixed reef

08/11/2009, 06:18 PM	#612
billgraf Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 54	Bump. I am trying to get to 50 posts so I can break my tank down and sell it here, I enjoyed reading you thread, beautiful tank __________________ Custom Made iPad Covers www.PaddyCase.com Current Tank Info: 120 gallon drilled tank, Aquacontroller Jr, 2-250 galaxy ballasts, Reef Optix Reflectors - 10,000k XM bulbs, PFO 4 bulb VHO Super Actinic, 30 gallon Sump, Octopus 200NW Skimmer

08/11/2009, 06:29 PM	#613
jgsensor Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 370	Sorry to hear about the trigger, they are beautiful fish. I've had good luck with a niger in my 375 now for about 2 years. He's a model citizen, hasn't bothered his tank mates or the corals. Although I am not brave enough to try shrimp or clams in the tank.

08/12/2009, 05:10 AM	#614
Lightsluvr Tangaroa to 500 gallons Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 5,855	Cool... Sorry about the male trigger, but it sounds like you nursed him back to health before he repaid you by munching on your coral... Ungrateful pig! Take a look at the Magnificent Foxface Rabbitfish sometime... they are interesting, beautiful and I have found mine to be completely reef safe... Enjoy! LL __________________ Click on my username and select "Lightsluvr's Home Page" for a recap of our build thread - AGE Hybrid Tank in a 500G system with dedicated fish room. (Takes a few minutes for photos to load) Leave a note if you stop by... Current Tank Info: 350G AGE Hybrid reef tank. 500G+ total water volume. Three sumps for filtration. Barracuda Gold return and Hammerhead Gold closed loop pumps. DIY T5 light system on rails. MP40W x3 to supplement closed loop. 130G Water management system.

08/12/2009, 10:01 AM	#619
Ozz465 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cali Posts: 2	Great thread , just read the whole thing .

08/20/2009, 08:52 AM	#623
EnglishRebel Retired Rebel Reefer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Triad NC Posts: 1,902	Sandy How's the female Trigger doing? Is she still moping about the tank looking for her buddy? BTW How do you subscribe to a thread? For some reason I lost all my subscriptions (including yours) and for the life of me I can't find the "Subscribe to this Thread" button (but I am getting old and senile ) __________________ Alan "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. " Sir Winston Churchill praising those young RAF pilots. August 20th 1940 Click on my name for drop down list and select "Visit EnglishRebels Home Page" for my build thread. Current Tank Info: 60x30x24 200G AO custom glass tank, basement equipment room, 30G and 55G Fuges, LifeReef sump & 30" skimmer.

08/20/2009, 12:50 PM	#624
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Alan, if you reply to a thread (and you have email notifications on), you'll be subscribed. Or you can click on the "Subscribe" button at the base of the page, under the quick edit box. It's a blue text link.